George S. Brown Edith L. Crawford, Carrizozo, N. Mex. George S. Brown, Carrizozo, N.M. Words 1291 PIONEER STORY. AUG 2 – 1938 [2nd?] I have lived in Lincoln County fifty-four years. I came here from Cedar Valley Missouri when I was six years old. There were twenty one wagons in our train when we left Cedar Valley for Mesa, Arizona, in April 1884. My father Thomas M. Brown, my mother and four children traveled in four covered wagons drawn by horses. My mother’s Father and Mother, Mr. and Mrs. David C. May, drove one wagon drawn by two white oxen. The rest of the crowd in the train were all uncles and aunts and cousins. They had their own covered wagons, drawn by mules. George Murray and his wife (they were relatives of my mother) drove a one horse buggy all the way through to Oklahoma, where they decided to locate. There were times when we were on our way that there would be as many as fifty wagons in our train. We would overtake some of them and some would overtake us and we would all go along together for awhile and then these other wagons would drift off … Continue reading George S. Brown Pioneer Story